Steam for Linux

I left Steam open on a random community page (this forum actually, I believe). When I opened the Steam window later (from the window list, since it won't close into tray) Steam was still displaying the page, but entirely unresponsive, and I had to kill it.

Steam wasn't running in a terminal this time, so no output available, sorry. I'm trying to reproduce the bug now, though.

It just happened again, in an entirely different situation: I was still doing things and chatting with someone inside Steam when it just froze. Ran with primusrun again. Trying without it now (so on Intel Sandybridge graphics).

Update: it's either because of the NVidia driver, bumblebee or primusrun, because it works fine on the Intel graphics.

I have just discovered that Steam does not actually lock up: the window does stop updating and accepting input, but Steam doesn't give any "unresponsive" messages when I try to close it and any downloads will continue.

I have also found a semi-consistent way to reproduce this. It seems to take a while and a lot of different texture loading before it wants to trigger. What I did the last two times to make it happen (in this order):- Click on a few different items in the library.- Open the friends list- Open Help > About window- Go through the store, library, community, news.- Go back into the library.- Right-click a game and go into its properties.Inbetween I also did some things like resize the window and alt-tab out of it.

Once I closed the properties window, Steam errorred. It usually seems to happen after I've opened and closed some separate Steam windows. Sometimes it happens rather quickly, sometimes it takes quite a while.